On 2014-02-06 15:10:44 +0000, Stewart Robert Hinsley said:

On 06/02/2014 14:48, sacha wrote:
On 2014-02-05 20:05:55 +0000, Nick Maclaren said:

In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:

Maybe some of the fastigiate Cornus might meet the bill. But if you can
do without the spring flowers, and get them at a time of the year when
not much else will be in flower, then Eucryphia x nymansensis ‘Nymansay’
or E. cordifolia might be worth consideration.

Thanks very much. Yes, Cornus might. I doubt that Eucryphia
would like the cold, though :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Whoops - spoke too soon! I take it a Camellia sasanqua wouldn't do,
Nick? Camellias can be trimmed and my ex-fil who had dozens, used to cut
one particular very large and very old one right back to one stem
sticking out the top. He did this every few years to keep the shape and
the plant is still there and going strong.

Unless C. sasanqua is tougher than the usual run of Camellias, I would
have thought that in his location he would lose the flowers to frost
(with the possible exception of this year).

Depennds when they get first frosts. C. sasanqua Baronesa de Soutelhino
flowers in October and November but it does like a sheltered place. A
later flowering type might do it. There's a hybrid called Snow Flurry
which is autumn flowering, I think and is said to be hardy.
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